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Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Sabine Hyland Abstract Andean pictographic writing, once considered the creation of foreign missionaries, is now recognized as a series of locally developed scripts that emerged after contact with alphabetic writing. However, the role of stylistic variation within the Andean pictographic scripts...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 117–133.
Published: 01 January 2010
... scripts. Furthermore, the communicative functions
of societies without a form of writing as traditionally defined tend to be
distributed more evenly across a number of different media. In fact, I would
argue that this is one of the reasons why the emergence of alphabetic writ-
ing was so...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... Is there a New World
answer to the perennial question about the relative importance of priestly
and administrative functions in the emergence of scripts? Is the “noun-plus-
number” syntax typical of protocuneiform similar to khipu syntax? Does
this comparison suggest that what was “proto” in relation...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 573–595.
Published: 01 July 2015
... . London : Equinox . Boone Elizabeth Hill Mignolo Walter D. , eds. 1994 Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Boone Elizabeth Hill Urton Gary , eds. 2011 Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 625–649.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Ellen Cushman The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 479–481.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 481–483.
Published: 01 April 2005
... be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC)
can only be understood...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 483–485.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 485–487.
Published: 01 April 2005
... of Russian Orthodox pres-
ence in Southeast Alaska, Sergei Kan asserts that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 487–489.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 489–490.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 491–492.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 492–494.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 494–496.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Alaska, Sergei Kan asserts that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 496–497.
Published: 01 April 2005
... today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged from this long encounter, and that the late-nineteenth-century
resurgence of Tlingit participation in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC)
can only be understood if we fully appreciate how this development is situ-
ated with respect...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 498–501.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that
approach in his history of two hundred years of Russian Orthodox pres-
ence in Southeast Alaska, Sergei Kan asserts that Christianity is a force
that must be acknowledged as integral to our understanding of life as lived
by Tlingit people today. Kan finds that a true ‘‘Tlingit Orthodoxy’’ has
emerged...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 553–572.
Published: 01 July 2015
... William M. Campbell Lyle Kaufman Terrence 1985 The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script . Middle American Research Institute vol. 53 . New Orleans : Tulane University . Kaufman Terrence Justeson John 2003 A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 651–674.
Published: 01 July 2015
... be sufficiently dis-
tinct and well rendered in any given text to be recognizable. For maximum
utility, the alphabet should be simple enough to learn and use.3 All those of
us who work on colonial Maya know how challenging the paleography can
be. Script style varies over time, and the overall quality...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 793–804.
Published: 01 October 2014
... or decentralized during the classic period, a point to which
Elizabeth Graham returns in the book’s concluding chapter.
The volume summarizes over a decade of research, much of it relying
on new and emerging techniques of analysis that have dramatically changed
our understanding of archaeological sites...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 709–739.
Published: 01 October 2010
... and practices millennia deep, the yax cheel cab known from the documentary record is a colonial amalgam, a world tree at the center of a hybrid cosmology emerging over the course of over a century and a half from processes of direct as well as indirect dialogue between Mayas and Europeans. American Society...
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